#150. Washakie Bad-Lands - Wyoming. 6 x 8.5, chromolithograph. Title on plate.
This picture is Plate XV in Clarence King's Systematic Geology, published in 1878. It is based on a sketch by Gilbert Munger. He was guest artist with King's 40th Parallel Geological Survey in 1869 and 1870. The Washakie Badlands are part of the Washakie Basin in Wyoming, which is located just north of the Colorado border in southeast Sweetwater County. QFD 39.
Image is a direct scan of the plate.